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Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband.Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband.Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband.
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- John Cassavetes
- Andrew Bergman(original director, replaced by John Cassavetes) (uncredited)
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- TriviaMaking this film cost Columbia Pictures the opportunity to make one of the most successful films of the 1980s. Just as the film was set to go into production, Columbia executives learned that the film could not be made unless they got the authorization of Universal. The legal department determined that "Big Trouble" was a remake of Double Indemnity (1944), which the latter studio owned. Universal's then-current head was Frank Price, who formerly ran Columbia. He was willing to give Columbia the remake rights to "Double Indemnity" under one condition - they would give Universal the rights to a sci-fi script that had caught his fancy at Columbia that the current management was sitting on. The trade was successful. Columbia was able to make "Big Trouble," which bombed, while the sci-fi film they passed on to Universal, Back to the Future (1985), was a great success.
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Leonard Hoffman: Fourteen thousand dollars a year, multiply that by three, that's forty-two thousand dollars a year tuition. They want two hundred thousand dollars to send three kids to Yale for four years.
- Crazy creditsThe 1976 Columbia "Sunburst" logo, complete with its audio, is used on this film instead of the studio's then-current 1981 logo.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Ghost Dad (1990)
- SoundtracksHappy Brithday to You
Written by Mildred J. Hill and Patty S. Hill
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Hilarious Comedy
l rented this movie by accident, recommending my girlfriend rent the other film entitled "Big Trouble" (2002). Well, it turned out we were lucky as Alan Arkin and Peter Falk are some of my favorite actors. The chemistry between Arkin and Falk is magical. The plot parallels some old Hollywood movies such as "Double Indemnity" in an odd fashion. I would describe it as "quirky", a throwback to the 1980's and a "must see" for all fans of Arkin, Falk, and Beverly D'Angelo, who looks fabulous in a variety of sexy outfits and carries her part with typical aplomb. Some of the scenes had me laughing so hard I had to stop the tape to recover (see Sardine Liquor). Charles Durning plays his important supporting role to perfection as well. Look for the uncredited cameo by Samuel L. Jackson near the beginning. This is a winner!
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- Nov 24, 2006
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- Sterben... und leben lassen
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- 4000 West Alameda Avenue, Burbank, California, USA(insurance company office building - exterior)
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